Admission

The Admission process at Christ Church Episcopal School is student-centered. We look for the brightest students in the upstate, those with intelligence, character, and an eagerness to learn. We look forward to getting to know each applicant and his or her family personally.

Academics

In addition to providing small class sizes where our high-quality faculty can focus on each individual student, our curriculum is challenging and rewarding, emphasizing unique learning opportunities and a global view.

Arts

Strong arts programming is at the core of our curriculum in each division, housed in state-of-the-art classrooms and facilities, promoting creativity, social development, self-discipline, and confidence in each and every student.

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School Life

An education is for life, and the complete package of academics, athletics, arts and extracurricular activities underpinned with a faith-based environment, allow CCES students to emerge with a wonderful combination of creativity, confidence, and accomplishment.

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Giving

One of many ways to stay involved in the life of the school is by making a gift to support our students and faculty. Your support makes all the difference and enables us to continue to invest in excellence.

Advanced Placement (AP) Courses

All students taking these college level courses are required to take a corresponding AP exam in May. A grade of 3 or better out of 5 is considered a passing score on the AP exam. However, each college has its own policies for granting credit at the actual institution, independent of what CCES or the College Board says.

IB Diploma Program

Christ Church Episcopal School is an International Baccalaureate World School, authorized in 1999 to offer the IB Diploma Program. Since the first CCES IB graduating class in 2001, 90 percent of our candidates have successfully earned the prestigious diploma. On average, 25 percent of each class elects the IB curriculum.

IB Diploma Requirements

The program has four components:

Study of six courses, including English, a second language, social studies, science, math, and either a fine art or another subject chosen from the first five categories. Courses are offered at either a Higher Level (HL) or a Standard Level (SL). Students are required to study three courses at HL and three at SL;

Extended Essay, a research paper in an academic subject chosen by the student;

Theory of Knowledge, a course designed to encourage students to examine the nature of knowledge by looking at different ways of knowing and different areas of knowledge;

Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS), an extracurricular activity requiring students to learn from experiences beyond the classroom.

Students take written examinations at the end of each course of study. These are marked by external IB examiners.

Students also complete assessment tasks in school, which may be assessed by classroom teachers or sent directly to external examiners. The diploma is awarded to students who attain the requisite number of points on their work.

For more information contact Upper School IB Coordinator, Amanda Beckrich at 864.299.1522 x1247 or at beckricha@cces.org. For more general IB Program information visit http://www.ibo.org.

IB Class of 2019

IB Class of 2020

"IB was the best possible thing I could have ever done with my time at CCES. Not only did I learn how to write and connect with people internationally, but I also learned time management skills— something many of my peers struggle with. I was talking with some friends in class the other day about how I am in bed every night by 10pm. A student interjected and said, "How can you do that?!" To which I replied, 'I prioritize...'"